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''Shosha'' is a novel originally written in Yiddish by Nobel Prize winning author Isaac Bashevis Singer. It is about the aspiring author Aaron Greidinger who lives in the Hasidic quarter of the Jewish neighborhood of Warsaw during the 1930s. "I was an anachronism in every way, but I didn't know it, just as I didn't know that my friendship with Shosha () had anything to do with love." Aaron had many love affairs with women, but the only woman he truly loved was Shosha, his childhood friend. Shosha was struck by a sleeping disease and had since barely grown physically and was mentally retarded. Aaron lived his childhood on 10 Krochmalna Street, and lost the sight of her as he moved away and she moved from no. 10 to no. 7. Hitler is in power in Germany and is set to annihilate the Jews in Poland while in Russia, Stalin rules with his deadly terror, so the only voluntary exit that many of the characters in ''Shosha'' perceive for themselves is suicide. Although Aaron is offered the opportunity to leave the threat of death — as others, from Hassidics to Hedonists, do — he turns down the chance to escape, for his love for Shosha and chooses to stay in Poland. Death is the cloud that hangs over the characters in ''Shosha''. As writer whose main medium is language, the book opens by explaining that Aaron was brought up on three ''dead'' languages: Hebrew, Aramaic and Yiddish. ==Epilogue== The epilogue of ''Shosha'' is an abrupt fast-forward from before the outbreak of the Second World War in Poland to the early fifties. In the last chapter the story ends thirteen years later, when Aaron meets Haiml Chentshiner in Israel. The epilogue is a concise dialogue in which each recounts the death of their friends. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Shosha (novel)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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